Resources found: 277

Centro de Promoção de Saúde

Disponibiliza informações sobre o Centro, breve histórico da promoção da saúde, dicas de saúde,programas em atividade, bases de dados, notícias, agenda, informações sobre produção do conhe...
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Resource added in: 03/10/2001
Available languages: Portuguese
Health Promotion, Health Equity, ITD, POLPUB, INSTINGOV

Strategies discussed to use scientific information for health equity

This paper is an account of the Workshop on Utilization of Scientific Information, preceded by a description of the theoretical framework upon which it is based. Identifying and proposing governmental...
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Resource added in: 09/07/2001
Available languages: Spanish, English
Evidence-Based Medicine, Equity, Decision-making, chsearch, Advocacy

Redes públicas, descentralizadas y comunitarias de salud en Bolivia

La reforma de la salud en Bolivia está basada principalmente en la descentralización y la equidad para mejorar la calidad y ampliar la cobertura de servicios de salud a las áreas rurales y pobres d...
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Resource added in: 28/06/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Reforma de Salud, Equidad en acceso de los servicios de salud^util

Global health fund debated

Informations about malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS.
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Resource added in: 28/06/2001
Available languages: English
Health Equity, Tuberculosis

Equity and health: Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau

The concept of equity has emerged as a primary guiding for the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. The Bureau has been gathering information on and examining issues related to disparities in hea...
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Resource added in: 28/06/2001
Available languages: English
Health Equity

Exploring the biological contributions to human health does sex matter?

The explosion in the growth of new biological information over the past decade has made it increasingly apparent that many normal physiological functions-and, in many cases, pathological functions-are...
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Resource added in: 21/06/2001
Available languages: English
Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions

Evolution and Inequality

Some scientists remain wary of evolutionary theory because of its supposed genetic determinism and insensitivity to the inequalities often associated with gender, race and class. The document aim is t...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Gender Identity, Health Status Disparities, Public Health, Health Equity, Racial, Advocacy

Urban cause-specific socioeconomic mortality differences. Which causes of death contribute most?

Cause-specific information on socioeconomic differences in health is necessary for a rational public health policy. At the local level, the Municipal Health Service studies these differences in order ...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Cause of Death, Mortality, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Equity, Differential Mortality, Equity, Living Conditions

Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in middle-aged men: importance of the duration of follow-up. The Copenhagen Male Study

The predictive value of some risk factors may diminish with increasing duration of follow-up. This study was performed to elucidate the role of socioeconomic status as a risk factor for ischaemic hear...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Myocardial Ischemia, Epidemiology, Risk, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Educational differences in lung cancer mortality in male smokers

To assess the extent of lung cancer mortality differentials by education while adjusting for exposure to tobacco smoke and asbestos based on survey questions. Lung cancer mortality of basic-educated m...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Lung Neoplasms, Mortality, Education, Smoking, Health Equity